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Alceste : tragédie opera en trois actes : representée pour la 1ere foir par l'Académie nale. de musique, le 30 Avril 1776

Title: Alceste : tragédie opera en trois actes : representée pour la 1ere foir par l'Académie nale. de musique, le 30 Avril 1776 / par Gluck.
Author: Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
Publication: Paris : Chez Louis, marchand de musique, [1817?]

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Description

1 score (3 v., 293 p.); 31 cm.

Uniform Title

Alceste (1776). German & French

Alternative Title

Alceste (1776).

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Note

"Le premier acte est gravé par F. Mme. Lobry"--P. 1.
Libretto by Ranieri de Calsabigi, later rev. by F. Du Roullet.
"An early edition marked up for performance in a number of German hands, with a concert ending for the Overtüre inserted on a separate leaf. German translation entered throughout, and with performance indications, deletions, alterations and annotations ("...bleibt weg...Gilt in Berlin...von Madame Milder in Es dur gesungen..."), in brown ink and in pencil. Hopkinson 44A (k) records the first German edition (vocal score) by Simrock (Bonn, ca. 1815). The first performance in Berlin was given in 1817 when Anna Milder was singing there"--Sotheby's auction catalog, 12/4/98.

Call Number

JOB 99-4

OCLC

41868745

Author

Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.

Title

Alceste : tragédie opera en trois actes : representée pour la 1ere foir par l'Académie nale. de musique, le 30 Avril 1776 / par Gluck.

Imprint

Paris : Chez Louis, marchand de musique, [1817?]

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Calzabigi, Ranieri de, 1714-1795.

Du Roullet, François Louis Gaud Lebland, marquis, 1716-1786.

Research Call Number

JOB 99-4